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D5.2 Final summary of all events organised
Grant Agreement nr 287711
Project acronym MIReS
Start date of project (dur.) Oct 1st 2011 (18 months)
Document due Date : Nov 30th 2012
Actual date of delivery Nov 27th 2012
Leader UPF-MTG
Reply to [email protected]
Document status V1
Project funded by ICT-7th Framework Program from the European Commission
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Project ref. no. 287711
Project acronym MIReS
Project full title Roadmap for Music Information ReSearch
Document name D5.2 Final summary of all events organised
Security (distribution level) PU
Contractual date of delivery Nov 30th 2012
Actual date of delivery Nov 27th 2012
Deliverable name D5.2 Final summary of all events organised
Type Deliverable
Status & version V8
Number of pages 45
WP / Task responsible UPF-MTG
Other contributors All MIReS partners in charge of organising WP5 events
Author(s) Dr. Xavier Serra, Alba B. Rosado
EC Project Officer Rainer Typke
Abstract This document collects all events organized within WP5
Community Co-creativity and New Knowledge Generation (Hubs and Spokes) until end of November 2012.
Keywords MIReS events, artists, academia, industry, focused
sessions
Sent to peer reviewer Yes (BMAT)
Peer review completed Yes (BMAT)
Circulated to partners Yes (21st Nov 2012)
Read by partners Yes (21st Nov 2012)
Mgt. Board approval Yes (23rd Nov 2012)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 BACKGROUND .............................................................................................................. 4 2 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................... 5
2.1 Expected outcomes ................................................................................................ 5 2.2 Type of events organised ....................................................................................... 5
2.3 List of events due November 2012 .......................................................................... 7 3 EVENT CLIPPING .......................................................................................................... 9
3.1 Workshop on Computational models for Music Information ReSearch in the frame of
the KIIT-Gurgaon Festival ................................................................................................. 9 3.2 AdMIRe 2012: 4th International Workshop on Advances in Music Information
Research ........................................................................................................................ 13 3.3 Music Tech Fest ................................................................................................... 15
3.3.1 Synaesthesia Workshops ............................................................................... 17
3.3.2 3D Hack Camp ............................................................................................. 18 3.4 MIReS panel discussion ‘Technological challenges for the computational modeling of
the world's musical heritage’ at INFLA / FMA 2012 ............................................................ 20 3.5 MIReS roundtable ‘MIR and creation’..................................................................... 22
3.6 Music Hack Day at Sonar Festival .......................................................................... 24 3.7 MIReS Panel ‘Make, Play, Shere: the Future of Music Tech’ at Sonar Festival ........... 28
3.8 MIReS Panel ‘The Future of Music Information Research’ in the frame of CMMR 2012
30 3.9 Second CompMusic Workshop .............................................................................. 33
3.10 Music Tech Fest: Music Tech Talks (Cultural Olympiad) ...................................... 35 3.11 ISMIR 2012 – special session "MIRrors: Looking back to the past of ISMIR to face
the future of MIR" .......................................................................................................... 37
3.12 ISMIR 2012 – Panel Session on Evaluation Initiatives in MIR ............................... 39 3.13 ISMIR 2012 – Demos and Late-breaking: Music Information Research Challenges 41
3.14 Music Tech Talks (II) ........................................................................................ 43 4 CONCLUSION ............................................................................................................. 45
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1 BACKGROUND
This document collects all events organized within WP5 Community Co-creativity and New Knowledge Generation (Hubs and Spokes) until end of November 2012. The tasks included in this WP are designed to build better and tighter bridges between the MIR academic, industrial and artistic communities on one hand, and other relevant complementary communities on the other hand, such as e.g. hackers/freelancers, artists and students. The conferences and events in WP5 include both special sessions in already consolidated conferences and new and disruptive event formats where several MIR research topics and questions are identified and shared between the participants who do not only write a position statement, but also imagine future MIR research directions which are valuable input for the roadmap in process.
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2 INTRODUCTION
WP5 has been conceived specifically in view of generating new knowledge which aid the roadmapping process, through a series of events specifically design to achieve MIReS results. The main objective of this WP is to gather information from experts in various fields that can be relevant for writing the MIR Roadmap. We aim at accomplishing this by organizing events with different types of communities, in different formats and addressing different topics related to the Roadmap. The main goal of the events has been to promote interdisciplinary discussions around MIR among people coming from very different backgrounds and interests. Another important goal of this WP is to promote networking between the different communities related to MIR and the promotion within them of the key concepts of the Roadmap. These activities allow the MIReS working team to evaluate and consider what these communities are expecting from MIR research and development now and – more importantly – what will be the worth of MIR in the future in terms of relevant values (scientific, technological, economic, artistic, etc.) and enable to consequently identify future directions for MIR research topics.
2.1 Expected outcomes
The main results to be obtained at the end of the project through the events and activities within WP5 are:
● High quality contributions to the key thematic areas of the MIR roadmap; ● Awareness and understanding of identified communities’ key actors with
respect to MIR research topics and ● Networking and community building between MIReS partners and external
stakeholders in the field (which is valuable input for WP6).
2.2 Type of events organised
We specially target academic and industrial events and take advantage of the most relevant conferences / event formats currently existing, thus covering the core research topics of the MIR field and the applications from different points of view: academic, industrial and artistic.
● Academic events Academic conferences are an important public assessment point for the MIReS Coordination Action. Gathering of information will be organized in a way to promote brainstorming on specific topics with the aim to include it in the roadmap.
● Events involving industry representatives, outside experts and future users Since the field of Music Information ReSearch is expected to have a considerable impact on the multimedia market economy and related fields within creative industries (entertainment, mobile services, gaming, virtual/augmented reality, etc.) several workshops involving key EU industry representatives are included with the goal of i)
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exploring future MIR applications and possible barriers from the industry point of view and ii) catering for quick technology transfer turnarounds.
● Events involving artists and musicians Creative insight into the discipline are sought through ‘art meets science’ events, gathering input from artists working with interactive technologies and music performers from different cultural backgrounds. These events encourage exchange of ideas with artists and musicians, and expand the Music Information ReSearch stakeholders network.
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2.3 List of events due November 2012
The list and categorization of WP5 events is as follows. All contributions gathered from different communities involved in conferences, workshops, roundtables and
other events are being collected into a summary which is directly influencing the MIReS roadmap.
Event title Dates Location Organizer* Partners
attending Target
Workshop on Computational models for Music Information ReSearch (MIReS) with multicultural focus in the frame of the KIIT-
Gurgaon Festival
Jan 20th, 2012
India UPF-MTG - Academic and artistic
AdMIRe 2012: 4th International Workshop on Advances in Music Information Research
Apr 17th, 2012
Lyon OFAI UPF-MTG Academic
Music Tech Fest, including Music discovery and creativity workshop,
3D Hack Camp and Industry trendspotting event May 17th -
19th, 2012 London STRO, BMAT QMUL, INESC
PORTO Artists and musicians, end users
and Industry representatives MIReS panel discussion ‘Technological challenges for the computational modeling of the world's musical heritage’ at INFLA /
FMA 2012
May 20th, 2012
Seville IRCAM, UPF-MTG
STRO, QMUL Academic
MIReS roundtable ‘MIR and creation’ Jun 2nd, 2012
Paris IRCAM UPF-MTG Academic and artistic
MIReS Panel ‘Make, Play, Share: the Future of Music Tech’ at Sonar
Festival Jun 14th,
2012 Barcelona STRO, BMAT,
UPF-MTG QMUL Industry representatives and
outsiders Music Hack Day at Sonar Festival Jun 14th -
15th, 2012 Barcelona UPF-MTG STRO, BMAT,
QMUL Industry representatives and future users
MIReS Panel ‘The Future of Music Information Research’ in the
frame of CMMR 2012 Jun 17th,
2012 London QMUL UPF-MTG Academic
2nd CompMusic Workshop Jul 8th-12th, 2012
Istanbul UPF-MTG - Academic and artistic
Music Tech Talks launch evening – London Cultural Olympiad Jul 26th,
2012
London STRO - Industry representatives
ISMIR 2012 - MIRrors Oct 11th,
2012
Porto UPF-MTG All Academic
ISMIR 2012 – Evaluation Initiatives in MIR Oct 12th, Porto IRCAM All Academic
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2012
ISMIR 2012 – Music Information ReSearch Challenges Oct 12th, 2012
Porto STRO All Academic
Music Tech Talks Nov 15th,
2012
London STRO QMUL Industry representatives
*The partner organizing the event is always attending it, so it would be not included in the raw ‘Partners attending’
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3 EVENT CLIPPING
This section details all events organised, including the basic information like location, dates, attendees and website, as well as information related to the content such as speakers and the
most relevant contributions to the roadmap in progress.
3.1 Workshop on Computational models for Music Information ReSearch in the frame of the KIIT-Gurgaon Festival
EVENT INFORMATION
Event title KIIT-Gurgaon Festival
Partner
organising Universitat Pompeu Fabra – Music Technology Group
Dates January 20th 2012
Location Kamrah International Institute of Technology, KIIT Campus, Sohna Road,
Near Bhondsi, Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Tags Multiculturalism
Proceedings
URL http://compmusic.upf.edu/node/111
Other remarks satellite event of FRSM 2012
MIReS EVENT / Activity
Event title Computational Models for Music Information ReSearch
Topics
addressed Current research issues and initial results (Xavier Serra)
Hindustani Music: A case for computational modeling (Preeti Rao)
Carnatic Music: A signal processing perspective (Hema Murthy)
Carnatic Music: A musicians perspective (T. M. Krishna)
Hindustani Music: A musicians perspective (Pt. Buddhadev Dasgupta)
Distribution based computational analysis of Makam Music (Bariş Bozkurt)
Machine learning for music discovery (Joan Serrà)
Panel discussion (moderator: Xavier Serra; panelists: Preeti Rao, Hema
Murthy, Bariş Bozkurt, T. M. Krishna, Mallika Banerjee)
Nature Workshop
Invited
speakers Pt. Buddhadev Dasgupta
T. M. Krishna
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Mallika Banerjee
Bariş Bozkurt
Nr. of
attendees 40
Relevant
contributions FRSM is an annual event with 20 years of history. It focuses on speech
and music and has a strong emphasis on young researchers. The main
person behind the conference is Prof. Ashoke Datta, a very senior and
active researcher that has been collaborating with ITC-SRA and doing
research in Indian music for a long time.
In the opening talk of the workshop Xavier Serra covered some of the
initial research efforts in the CompMusic project which are fully aligned
with the concerns about multiculturality included in MIReS roadmap.
Within CompMusic project we are working on the computational modeling
within five main topics: intonation, melody, rhythm, on-line communities,
and music discovery tools. These topics have to be understood within each
particular music culture and each one requires a specific research
approach. The work team has realized that most of the definitions of
relevant music concepts, like melody and rhythm, found in the literature
have a western bias and they are trying to redefine them within our
particular cultures and for their research goals. In the talk Xavier Serra
also showed a mock up and a very preliminary version of the CompMusic
Browser, a tool for exploring the music collections of the different
repertoires. The Browser's intended functionality is quite indicative of their
research objectives and it will be used as the major demonstrator of their
technological results.
Preeti Rao, who leads the research team at IIT-Bombay, gave a talk on
"Computational modeling for Hindustani music". She talked about some of
the tools that can be used to analyze Hindustani music and then she
described the use of pitch contours to understand the melodic
characteristics of the music. She presented her team's work on melodic
transcription.
Hema Murthy, who leads the research team at IIT-Madras, gave a talk on
"Carnatic Music: Signal Processing Perspective". She started by introducing
the structure of a Carnatic music concert and then focused on the issue of
pitch analysis of Carnatic music. She presented her team's work on the
analysis and synthesis of pitch contours, specifically on Gamakaas. She
also introduced their first results on time-frequency representations aimed
as separating the voice from the accompaniment instruments, work that
could be used to better analyze the gamakaas and phrases sung by the
lead voice.
Pandit Buddhadev Das Gupta, a well-recognized Hindustani musician and
sarod maestro, gave a talk about how technology has been used in
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Hindustani music. He talked about electronic shruti boxes, synthesizers
and proposed the use of computers for education, generating melodies to
be learned or for slowing down audio recordings so details of a
performance are better perceived.
T. M. Krishna, one of the leading Carnatic music vocalists, gave a talk on
Carnatic music from a historical perspective, focusing on melodic issues.
He pointed out that the Indian music of the early times, around 2nd and
3rd century AC, did not use a fixed pitch (fixed tonic), and instead, the
common practice was to use fixed frequencies for the notes, which is the
inverse of what is used now. From this view he argued that the use of 22
shrutis as a way to divide an octave is not relevant today, that it is a
concept of the past. He also emphasized that a note is not a specific
frequency position, instead it is a frequency region. Also he made the point
that the original ragas were collections of motives, or melodic phrases and
that it was later when new ragas started to be defined as collections of
notes, scales. This is why we currently find both phrase-based and scale-
based ragas. Another topic that he covered was the issue of gamakas and
their importance in defining ragas and he also talked about the different
compositional forms used in Carnatic music. He finished his presentation
by talking about the treatise "Sangita Sampradaya Pradarshini" by
Subbarama Dikshitar, published in Telugu in 1904. He has been involved in
the rendering of the compositions notated there following the descriptions
included in the treatise, thus following to the performance practice of the
time.
Bariş Bozkurt, invited expert in Turkish-makam music, gave a talk on
"Distribution Based Computational Analysis of Makam Music". His talk was
mainly an introduction to the makam music of Turkey and to the work that
his team has done on the analysis of that music. He made special
emphasis on the issues of notation and tuning and on his signal processing
work to automatically describe intonation and to recognize the makam
used in a given piece. This work is quite relevant for a number of the
issues that the study of Indian music is faced with.
The last talk of the workshop was given by Joan Serrà, a post-doc
researcher working in Barcelona. His talk was entitled "Machine Learning
for Music Discovery" and he gave a quick overview of the field of machine
learning as it is used for music description, currently applied to western
music. He made a lot of emphasis on how to best use of the different
machine learning methods in specific problems. Most of the presented
methods and approaches should be of relevance to indian music.
The workshop ended with a panel discussion with the participation of
Preeti Rao, Hema Murthy, Bariş Bozkurt, T. M. Krishna, and Mallika
Banerjee (a Hindustani vocalist from Delhi). The aim of the panel was to
talk about melodic and rhythmic characteristics of both Hindustani and
Carnatic music, trying to focus in the differences between the two cultures.
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It was clear that is very difficult to formalize the characteristics of such rich
musical cultures; there are many styles, approaches to improvisation and
many factors that influence a given musical performance.
The workshop was very successful. We were able to have a fruitful dialog
between engineers and musicians.
Further
details http://compmusic.upf.edu/node/111
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3.2 AdMIRe 2012: 4th International Workshop on Advances in Music Information Research
EVENT INFORMATION
Event title AdMIRe 2012: 4th International Workshop on Advances in Music Information
Research: "The Web of Music"
Partner
organising OSGK-OFAI
Co-
organisers Markus Schedl, Department of Computational Perception, Johannes Kepler
University, Linz, Austria
Peter Knees, Department of Computational Perception, Johannes Kepler
University, Linz, Austria
Òscar Celma, Gracenote, Emeryville, CA, USA
Dates 4/17/2012
Location Lyon, France
Tags Music Information Systems
Multimodal User Interfaces
User Modeling, Personalization, Music Recommendation
Context-aware and Mobile Music Information Retrieval
Music in the Cloud
Web Mining and Information Extraction
Collaborative Tags, Social Media Mining, (Social) Network Analysis
Semantic Content Analysis and Music Indexing
Hybrid Approaches using Context and Content
Large-Scale Music Similarity Measurement, Scalability Issues and Solutions
Evaluation, Mining of Ground Truth and Data Collections
Semantic Web, Linked Data, Ontologies, Semantics and Reasoning
Mining and Analysis of Music Video Clips, Music-Related Images and Artwork
Proceedings
URL http://www2012.wwwconference.org/proceedings/forms/companion.htm#8
http://www.cp.jku.at/conferences/admire2012/
Other
remarks The event has been organised by Schedl, Knees and Celma with partial financial
support by OSGK-OFAI through MIReS project
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MIReS EVENT / Activity
Topics
addressed Music Information Systems, Multimodal User Interfaces, User Modeling,
Personalization, Music Recommendation, Context-aware and Mobile Music
Information Retrieval, Music in the Cloud, Web Mining and Information
Extraction, Collaborative Tags, Social Media Mining, (Social) Network Analysis,
Semantic Content Analysis and Music Indexing, Hybrid Approaches using
Context and Content, Large-Scale Music Similarity Measurement, Evaluation
Nature Workshop
Invited
speakers Francesco Ricci “Context-Aware Music Recommender Systems”, Xavier Serra
“Data Gathering for a Culture Specific Approach in MIR”
Nr. of
attendees 30
Relevant
contributions The workshop brought together world-class researchers in Music Information
Research (MIR) to discuss topics highly relevant for the future of MIR. In
particular, the following short-term objectives of MIReS have been addressed
in AdMIRe:
• Formulate research evaluation standards (paper presentations by Urbano and
by Bertin-Mahieux)
• Assess emerging contexts, such as web mining (paper presentation by
Hauger)
• Engage researchers from outside the EU (paper presentations by Bertin-
Mahieux and by Hankinson, participation of Fujinaga)
• Major challenges of MIR (multiculturalism in the keynote by Serra, semantic
gap in the paper presentation by Sordo, multimodal information in the paper
presentation by Hankinson, personalized and context-aware music retrieval and
recommendation in the keynote by Ricci, scalability in the paper presentation
by Bertin-Mahieux)
Further
details http://www.cp.jku.at/conferences/admire2012/
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3.3 Music Tech Fest
EVENT INFORMATION
Event title Music Tech Fest
Partner
organising STRO
Co-organisers BMAT
Dates 18-19 May 2012
Location Ravensbourne, London
Tags music, information festival, talks, demos, performances, speakers, SMEs,
artists, performers
Proceedings
URL http://www.musictechfest.org/
Other
remarks The core festival event includes and expands on the aims and objectives of
the music industry trend spotting event planned for the WP5 and the
proposal for a research-to-industry network in WP6.
MIReS EVENT / Activity
Topics
addressed The range of topics was very extensive as the festival engaged the entire
music technology ecosystem under one roof – from the big brands in the
music industry and media, music tech startups and apps creators, to
developers, researchers, artists, performers, creatives and hackers.
Example topics include: rights clearance, access to music collections for
artists and researchers, music data visualisation, metadata creation and
management, installation art driven by sound and music data, the impact
of research on the music industry and innovative SMEs, new musical
instruments driven by data, and performing with data.
Nature 20 minute talks, demos and performances over two days.
Invited
speakers Funded speakers: Frederic Rousseau (IRCAM, research - partner),
Christian Blom (artist), Matthew Davies (INESC - research, partner), Oscar
Paytuvi (BMAT - SME, partner), Avi Ashkenazi (artist), Adam Place
(Alphasphere - artist), Bruno Zamborlin (Mogees - artist and
IRCAM/Goldsmiths research), Carles Lòpez (Reactable - artist)
Non-funded speakers: Matt Balck (Ninjatune - music industry, and
Coldcut - artist), Nicole Yershon (Ogilvy Digital Labs - media industry),
Estefania Caño (Fraunhofer / Songs2See - research), Saoirse Finn (QMUL -
research, partner), Patrick Bergel (Animal Systems - SME, research), Ben
Lawrence (Mixcloud - SME), Evan Stein (Decibel - SME), Kim de Ruiter
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(Noise Inc - SME), Matthew Sherett (Last.fm - SME), Tim Hadley (rara.com
/ Omnifone - SME), Philippe Perreaux (Right Clearing, SME), Cliff Fluet
(Lewis Silkin - legal, music industry), Ed Averdieck (Cue Songs - SME), Will
Page (PRS - music industry), Michela Magas (Stromatolite - SME and
research, partner), Daniel Lewington (MPme / Apsmart - SME), Michael
Breidenbrücker (RjDj - SME), Peter Kirn (Create Digital Music - research),
Martin Ware (Illustrious - SME and music industry), Tom Cheshire (Wired -
media industry), Jason Titus (CTO Shazam - music industry), Dave Haynes
(VT Soundcloud - SME and music industry), DJ Ham (Ninjatune - music
industry), Martin Macmillan (Soniqplay - SME), Paul D (artist), Olivier de
Simone (webdoc - SME), Johann Waldherr (Spectral Mind - SME), Stephen
O’Reilly (Mobile Roadie - SME and music industry), Ariel Elkin (London
Music Hackspace - research), Jake Williams (artist and Goldsmiths music
research), Daniel Jones (artist and Goldsmiths music research), Cassiel
(artist), Jason Singh (artist / Victoria and Albert museum resident sound
artist and music researcher)
Nr. of
attendees 1036
Relevant
contributions Mutidisciplinary cooperations:
● Several talks and performances highlighted the need for multidisciplinary
cooperations, focusing particularly on the collaborations between
researchers, innovators, industry and performers. One session was devoted
entirely to the impact research can have on commercial companies. The
live panel conducted by Tom Cheshire, the Associate Editor of Wired
Magazine, with Shazam, Soundcloud, RjDj and Stromatolite, focused
entirely on research-to-industry topics and the importance of integrating
academic research within industry innovation
Rights clearance for researchers:
● A cluster of talks and demos focused on new systems which use the results
of research from research institutions like UPF-MTG and Fraunhofer to
create industry standard digital music recommendation and licensing tools
for inclusion in commercial platforms. Availability of collections for research
and testing was discussed, as well as legal and availability implications.
The prevalent consensus seems to indicate a change in the attitude of the
music industry that are becoming more willing to work with researchers
and make their collections available.
SME research and commercial innovation:
● There was strong evidence from participants that innovative music
technology SMEs employ academic MIR researchers to ensure
competitiveness in music technology innovation. Eight talks presented tools
which were developed by teams of researchers who have come from some
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of the top music tech research units in Europe, including those from MIReS
partner organisations.
The importance of music data for performance tools:
● Several innovative performance platforms were presented which generate
music by using information generated by music or sound environments,
crowd-sourced applications, or custom built installations or platforms. The
BBC radio programme and podcast reporting on the festival labelled this
“the future of music”.
The importance of music data for art installations:
● Four art installations used music data to generate sound-driven sculptural
kinetic sound objects or audio-visual environments, thus showing the
importance and potential of music data in the visual and kinetic arts.
Further details All of the talks, demos and performances have been filmed by a full film
crew (3 camera angles), were broadcast live over the internet and are
being edited for inclusion in the new Music Tech Talks channel on
YouTube. Without extensive publicity, the internet live streaming attracted
more than 700 viewers from 34 countries.
The success of the Music Tech Fest has been to ensure long-term impact
through regular involvement of the community of industry, SMEs, artists
and researchers and regular gatherings and exchange of ideas, thus
forming a research-to-industry network. The stakeholders have agreed to
continue recording Music Tech Talks on a regular basis for inclusion on the
Music Tech Talks channel. An event is planned for July 26th at the launch
of the London Olympics evening programme, which will see community
members like Soundcloud, Last.fm and Shazam deliver 20 minute talks to
invited audiences and Olympics dignitaries and will be edited for inclusion
in the Music Tech Talks channel.
The festival generated several articles in the technology press and blogs,
and was reported as a series of interviews on the BBC radio and podcast in
a special report on “the future of music”.
3.3.1 Synaesthesia Workshops
EVENT INFORMATION
Event title Music Tech Fest Partner
organising STRO
Dates 17 May 2012 Location Ravensbourne, London Tags music, information, creative, sound, colour, artists, designers, animators, film
makers, music makers Proceedings http://www.musictechfest.org/
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URL Other remarks
This workshop fulfils the scope of the planned music discovery and creativity workshops as listed in the WP5 programme. The first day of the festival was
devoted entirely to this workshop.
MIReS EVENT / Activity
Event title Synaesthesia Workshops Topics addressed
Music information and creativity
Nature All day workshop Invited
speakers Peter Kirn, workshop leader
Nr. of attendees
70
Relevant
contributions Visualisation of music information, interfacing, cross-disciplinary
collaboration, vocal sketching, sonification, multimedia representations Further details
Ideas on "seeing music" we're used as a trigger for an investigation into the relationship between music data and the visual arts. Peter Kirn, author of
Create Digital Music (http://createdigitalmusic.com/) and of Synaesthesia workshops at Parsons School of Art in New York was invited to conduct the
workshop. Tutorials were focused on methods in Processing and digital
media, and examples drawn from digital ways of visualising music. The outcome showed a strong correlation between the interpretation of music
and visual triggers. A collaborative application translating visual data to music data was used to generate music by drawing. The final results were presented on the main stage to festival audiences and
will be uploaded on the new Music Tech Fest / Music Tech Talks channel on YouTube.
3.3.2 3D Hack Camp
EVENT INFORMATION
Event title Music Tech Fest Partner
organising STRO
Dates 18-19 May 2012 Location Ravensbourne, London Tags music, information, hacking, APIs, tangible interfaces, the Internet of
Things (IoT) Proceedings
URL http://www.musictechfest.org/
Other remarks This event has covered most of the planned activity from the WP5 hacking event with EU Associate Countries.
MIReS EVENT / Activity
Event title 3D Music Hack Camp Topics Hacking with music information and tangible objects
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addressed Nature Hacking session Invited
speakers Varun Jewalikar (UPF-MTG), Stylianos Togias (UPF-MTG), Mohamed
Sordo (UPF-MTG), Jordi Hidalgo Gomez (UPF-MTG), Sebastian Mealla
Cincuegrani (UPF-MTG), Frederic Font Corbera (UPF-MTG), Daniel Gallardo Grassot (UPF-MTG), Gerard Roma Trepat (UPF-MTG), Hector
Parra Rodriguez (UPF-MTG), Anna Xambó (ex UPF MTG Barcelona), Cyril Laurier (ex UPF MTG Barcelona), Maya Benainous (games animator,
Barcelona), Oscar Paytuvi (BMAT, Barcelona), Pau Capella (BMAT,
Barcelona), Xavier Francisco (BMAT, Barcelona), Jupi Sehovic (Film Maker and Editor, Kreativni Media Company, Croatia), Sanjin Celeski
(Web Designer and Programmer, Kreativni Media Company, Croatia) Nr. of attendees
30
Relevant
contributions Innovative applications of music information to 3D environments and
objects, applications addressing music making through information generated by tangible environments and objects.
Further details The 3D Music Hack Camp was conceived with the aim of combining the
Internet of Things with music information hacking. The concept attracted contributions from some of the best known brands in the media and
music industry: EMI, the BBC, Warp, Decibel, BMAT, Cisco, Ninja Tune,
Last.fm and Animal Systems. The camp was run by Ariel Elkin from the London Music Hack Space. The event generated novel applications of music information to objects like light sabres, play environments like ping pong tables, as well as new
musical instruments and tangible interfaces.
The final results were presented on the main stage to festival audiences and have been filmed for upload on the new Music Tech Fest / Music
Tech Talks channel on YouTube. The main award ceremony will be held on the Music Tech Talks event on
the 26th of July 2012, in 360˚ projection domes set up especially to run the evening programme during the London Olympics.
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3.4 MIReS panel discussion ‘Technological challenges for the computational modeling of the world's musical heritage’ at INFLA / FMA 2012
EVENT INFORMATION
Event title III Interdisciplinary Conference on Flamenco Research – INFLA and II
International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis - FMA
Partner
organising Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Co-organisers IRCAM and Universidad de Sevilla
Dates April 19th-20th, 2012
Location Seville, Spain
Tags Folk music analysis, computational ethnomusicology, interdisciplinary
Proceedings
URL http://congreso.us.es/infla3/en/index.html
MIReS EVENT /
Activity
Event title Panel discussion: Technological challenges for the computational
modeling of the world's musical heritage
Topics
addressed Challenges for building computational models of the world's musical
heritage.
• How to foster collaboration between researchers from different
disciplines (musicologists, musicians, engineers...)?
• Is it right to focus on single culture studies rather than approach
musical phenomena cross-culturally?
• Which should be our next steps in establishing ethno-Music Information
Retrieval (ethno-MIR)?
Nature Panel discussion & workshop
Invited
speakers Polina Proutskova
Nr. of
attendees 30
Relevant
contributions In the panel, we discussed the topics listed below. We provide here the
main conclusions:
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How to foster collaboration between researchers from different disciplines
(musicologists, musicians, engineers...)?
● Need to build truly interdisciplinary teams
● It’s important to turn computational modes into usable tools that
ethnomusicologists or musicologists can use.
● We should define new methodologies adapted to the use of
technology for ethnomusicological studies.
Is it right to focus on single culture studies rather than approach musical
phenomena cross-culturally?
● We need to study single cultures but at the same time we need to
keep links and collaborations between cultures to perform cross-
cultural analyses.
Which should be our next steps in establishing ethno-Music Information
Retrieval (ethno-MIR)?
● Create an ethno-MIR Special Interest Group within the ISMIR
society.
● Organize an annual meeting during ISMIR.
● Establish FMA as an annual forum for ethno-MIR
● Write grant proposals for collaborations in ethno-MIR; in particular
a proposal for a European COST action that would support
conferences and workshops in ethno-MIR
Further details http://congreso.us.es/infla3/en/programa.html
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3.5 MIReS roundtable ‘MIR and creation’
EVENT INFORMATION
Event title Workshop on “M.I.R. and Creation”
Partner organising IRCAM, Paris, France
Dates June 2nd, 2012
Location Paris, France
Tags M.I.R., audio features, music creation, real-time, installation,
interaction, sensors, captures
Proceedings URL http://recherche.ircam.fr/anasyn/peeters/pub/workshop_mir_creation/
MIReS EVENT / Activity
Topics
addressed The goal of this workshop is to invite key actors to give their viewpoint on
the use of M.I.R. technologies for creation. Speakers were:
● Geoffroy Peeters (IRCAM) Introduction (MIReS)
● Gérard Assayag (IRCAM) "Information retrieval and deployment in
interactive improvisation systems" ● Norbert Schnell (IRCAM) "Gestural Re-Embodiment of Digitized Sound
and Music"
● Diemo Schwarz (IRCAM) "Interactive Exploration of Sound Corpora for
Music Performance and Composition"
● Philippe Manoury (Composer) "Audio descriptors: a key issue for real-
time composition " ● Tristan Jehan (EchoNest) "Playing with Music"
● François Pachet (SonyCSL) "VirtualBand, a MIR-approach to interactive
improvisation"
● Sergi Jorda (IUA/UPF) "MIR beyond retrieval: Music Performance,
Multimodality and Education" The keynotes were followed by a round-table
Nature Workshop made of 7 keynotes of 1 hour each followed by a round-table of
1 hour.
Invited
speakers Outside IRCAM: Philippe Manoury, Tristan Jehan (EchoNest), Francois
Pachet (Sony-CSL), Sergi Jorda (MTG-UPF)
Nr. of
attendees 30
Relevant
contributions The whole workshop was dedicated to try to better understand the
relationship between “M.I.R. and Creation”. This workshop was organized
as part of MIReS WP5 and is directly connected to the section currently
named “Performance and Artistic applications of M.I.R.”. Music Information Retrieval (MIR) has been for a long time associated to
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the extraction of information from already-created and already-recorded
music in order to facilitate search, navigation and access over music
collections. In this workshop, we study how MIR has extended its scope
and is now used for the creation process itself. We invite key-actors to give
their point-of-view on the present and future of MIR for creation, being at
the composition, interaction, performance or research level, at the audio,
symbolic and database level.
The goal of the workshop is to focus on the use of M.I.R. for Creation, to
go beyond “musaicing”, to answer the question -what can we do with the
Information a-la-ISMIR (audio-descriptors, source-separation, chords,
beats, auto-tags) for Creation ? -what other Musical Information can be
used for Creation (symbolic, sensors, …) ?
The speakers were invited according to their skills and representativity of a
given field: representing research on technologies (Assayag, Schnell,
Schwarz, Jorda), composition (Manoury) or industry (EchoNest, SonyCSL).
Further
details http://recherche.ircam.fr/anasyn/peeters/pub/workshop_mir_creation/
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3.6 Music Hack Day at Sonar Festival
EVENT INFORMATION
Event title Sonar Festival, within SonarPRO (Professional area of the music festival)
Partner
organising Universitat Pompeu Fabra – Music Technology Group
Dates 14-15 June 2012
Location CCCB, Barcelona http://www.cccb.org/en/
Tags Art technology, technological innovation, creative industries, ideas debate,
experiences sharing, exhibition, live experimentation, demos, showroom
Proceedings
URL The main outcomes of this session (basically hacks submitted) are available
here http://wiki.musichackday.org/index.php?title=Barcelona_Hacks_2012
Other
remarks Sonar webpage http://sonar.es/en/2012/
All expenses related to the MHD at Barcelona have been funded through
private sponsorship coming from the companies involved in the event.
MIReS EVENT / Activity
Event title Music Hack Day at Barcelona http://bcn.musichackday.org, organised as
satellite event of the Sonar Festival (inside Professional space of the
Festival) as ‘live experimentation’ activity
Topics
addressed Live experimentation, hacking, music, MIR, creation, multimodality,
interaction
Nature The Music Hack Day at Barcelona in 2012 started with 18 presentations
from music technology related entities exhibiting the resources available to
hackers during the Music Hack Day session. Then participants (or hackers)
suggested ideas and built teams, based on individual interests and skills.
Then at 14pm the main work of the hacking session began, which lasted 24
hours until the 14pm of the following day (overnight hacking included). At
the end of the hacking session, there was a series of demonstrations of the
hacks created in which each group of hacker presented their results (a total
of 41 hacks were obtained). The best in-show hacks were awarded by a
panel of judges from involved companies who selected the winning teams,
and the prizes were given at the end.
Invited
speakers Music Tech Company - Speaker 7 digital – William Munn
BMAT – Johannes Lyda
Deezer – Axel Calandre
The Echo Nest – Matthew Ogle
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This is My Jam – Matthew Ogle
Freesound - Frederic Font
Gracenote - Ching-Wei Chen
Last.fm - Matthew Hawn
Musescore - Nicolas Froment
MusicBrainz - Robert Kaye
Musicmetric - Ben Fields
MusixMatch - Stefano Rodighiero
Reactable - Marcos Alonso
SoundCloud - Darrell Stephenson
Spotify - Andreas Blixt
Ubuntu One - Stuart Langridge
Oblong - Miguel Sánchez
Zvooq - Andrey Popp
Nr. of
attendees 30 people representing 18 companies and other entities in the music
technology field plus 90 hackers and 10 artists who were in charge of
creating applications using involved entities’ resources (APIs, SDKs, etc.).
About 50 more people attended to the public presentations (companies and
hacks’ presentations and prize giving session). So the total number of the
audience is about 180 people.
Relevant
contributions
As a result of the 24-hour hacking session we obtained 41 hacks. The
overview of hacks build in the session is as follows:
● Listen Alongside by Stuart Langridge - Listen to the same music as a
friend on Ubuntu One. For jogging or hanging out or silent discos!
● Huesound @ Spotify by Robert Kaye - Discover music via colors and
cover art on Spotify!
● Teach me Nina by MuseScore - Music learning in Google Hangout with
MuseScore sheet music
● MusicGene by Zvooq - music generation from feature-annotated samples
● Free(CC)it! (by Frederic Font and Stelios Togias) - Create license-free
versions of commercial songs using Echonest and Freesound.
● Scores4u (by Quim Llimona and Sara Gozalo) - Multi platform application
to search for music, lyrics and scores. Visor+editor for scores in HTML5.
● Karaoke (by Will Munn) - A simple karaoke web-app
● sOSCial by Frederic Jaeckel of SoundCloud - A collaborative OSC
controller based on javascript + websockets, designed to control ableton
live
● Tunemap (by Guillermo Malon, Alberto González, JP Carrascal) - Find out
how geographical location shapes contemporary music, with the help of
Echonest, Deezer and OpenStreetmaps.
● TuitSynth by Jordi Sala of mobilitylab.net - transform the tweets
containing HT #sonar2012 into sounds (or noise) in real time with an
Arduino and a MeeBlip.
● Music Forecast (by Seb Jacobs) - A simple web app which generates
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spotify playlists depending on the weather, and your lastfm tastes
● Cumulist (by Amélie Anglade and Becky Stewart) - Collaborative playlist
interface using Oblong's Substrate library for multiple iOS devices and
SoundCloud.
● Kinectstrument (by Matthew Larsen) - Play along to your favourite songs
using the Kinect
● Jamvalanche (by Andreas Jansson and Matthew Ogle) - Antagonizing the
slow music movement since June 2012
● Festudy (by Juanjo, Johannes and Mohamed) - Study your next festival
by listening to possible sets
● Legalize It! (by Ben Fields) - For when you want to listen to the hottest
tracks on bittorrent, but you're not so into piracy.
● AriHits by Ariel Elkin - A tilt-controlled iOS drum machine that lets you
make a beat as a random SoundClouder raps on it.
● SongWaver (by Quim Llimona) - Music query by waving! An amazing
mobile app for melodic discovery.
● Sing your melody (by Kaspar) - Write your scores in MuseScore by
singing the pitches
● Soundscape Turntablism (by Gerard Roma and Anna Xambó) -
Soundscape DJing on a tiny DIY turntable!
● Talkrecordin (by Alex, Daniel and Peter) - Record a talk & take pictures
of the slides within one app. Watch it all together on talkrecord.in
● FreestyleSound (by Marcos Alonso & Javi Agenjo) - Play with the
Freesound samples database from the iPad.
● HackRap (by Los hijos del sonido volador) - Multimedia real-time
collaborative performance
● Site Performance (by Darrell Stephenson) - Let the Chrome debugger
perform specially for you.
● Kulturpark Explorer (by Tank Thunderbird & Erik Woitschig) - Explore an
abandoned amusement park
● This is my Panda (by Adam Lindsay) - Bringing social network
optimisation to TIMJ.
● Jamming Invasion (by Aimar Gonzalez, Alfonso Pardo & Javi Aranega) -
Space Shooting Game that it's generated by recorded or live music.
Mobile & desktop application.
● Moodorama (by Ching-Wei Chen & Jaume Sanchez) - Remember the
soundtrack of your travels with a mood-tinted panoramic re-creation.
● Genre Cats (by Phillip Popp) Bring kittens into the music biz.
● Paintlist (by Phillip Popp) Create a playlist by drawing your moods.
● ilikemysound (by Wernfried Lackner + Stefan Kersten) Order a T-Shirt
with QR code to show off the sounds you like.
● Comments Sync (by Jaume Sanchez) Video-clip created with Soundcloud
data
● Moodmash (by David Yerrington) Display the moods from your top tracks
on Last.fm
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● MashTV (by Hector Parra, Jordi Hidalgo & Oscar Casanovas) - Creates a
mashuped personal TV channel using parts of different related songs
from youtube and the echonest remix API.
● VirtualMuseum (By Oriol Fernandez) Creates a virtual museum for the
selected artist from EchoNest API's
● GoldbergReactions (By Johan) How to people react to the Goldberg
Varttions
● Spotify Poetry (by Ricardo Vice Santos) - Create and share a Spotify
playlist based on a sentence or poem. Inspired
by spotifypoetry.tumblr.com and Esta lista no se escucha, se lee: by José
María Díaz
● Twealtime (by Andreas el Sueco Blixt) - Real time Twitter hottest tracks
● Soft Singing Radio Hack (by Nela Brown and Chris Rea) - Circuit-bending
children's toy to find interesting sounds.
● DoodleRadio (by Nick Dima & Pierpaolo Di Panfilo) - A doodled radio
playing lyrics shared on twitter, using Spotify or Deezer as player.
● ReverseThesia (by Stromatolite) - Sound to colour using the different
sound frequencies.
Further
details All hack presentations and award-giving session recordings are available here
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL76079818BE31A2D1&feature=plcp
All pictures are available here
http://www.flickr.com/search/show/?q=musichackday+barcelona+2012&d=ta
ken-20120601-20120713&ss=0&ct=0&mt=all&adv=1
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3.7 MIReS Panel ‘Make, Play, Shere: the Future of Music Tech’ at Sonar Festival
EVENT INFORMATION
Event title Sonar Festival, within SonarPRO (Professional area of the music
festival)
Partner
organising BMAT, STRO
Co-organisers UPF-MTG
Dates June 14th 2012
Location Barcelona, Spain
Tags Folk music analysis, computational ethnomusicology, interdisciplinary
Proceedings URL http://www.mires.cc/MIReSForum%40SonarPro
http://sonar.es/en/2012/pg/ideas-debate_48
Other remarks -
MIReS EVENT / Activity
Event title MAKE, PLAY, SHARE: The future of MusicTech
Topics
addressed The Sonar Panel is a discussion amongst Relevant Music Industry players
which intended to look into the future of the Music Industry from three
perspectives: Search & Discovery, Creativity and Rights Management and
gather first-hand feedback from relevant industry players.
Music Cataloguing, Music Search and Recommendation, Interfaces, Playlist
Generation, Music format, Mobile applications, charts, tagging, Music
Databases, Music services interoperability
Nature Panel discussion
Invited
speakers Jamillah Knowles, BBC journalist
Alex Loscos, co-founder & CEO at bmat.com
Olivier de Simone, Founder at webdoc.com
Scott Cohen, Founder and VP International at theorchard.com
Michela Magas, innovation catalyst at Stromatolite.com
Robert Kaye, founder and lead developer for MusicBrainz.org, and President
and Executive Director of the MetaBrainz Foundation
Matthew Hawn, Vice President, Product at Last.fm
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Nr. of
attendees 40
Relevant
contributions The discussion spanned 1h20 so a big number of topics were brought up.
Please, see below some of the contributions which are taken into account in
the Roadmap:
● Music recommendation: Is it as good as a Human Recommendation?
For some speakers, Music recommendation is as good as it gets. For
some others, there is still a long road ahead for every user to have
his own John Peel. Also, Music recommendation still lacks to take the
time factor; the sociocultural evolution of what a given song/artist
represent. This is a big topic which should be addressed.
● Music charts: Most of the speakers agreed that they are still relevant.
Music is emotion and connecting with people. Listening to the same
songs as your peers is a way for creating bonds with them. The
charts are now more granular per tag/micro styles/community of
friends....
● Geographically tagging: is very relevant for music personalization.
● Music services Interoperability: it is very necessary in order to create
new user experiences. Musicbrainz is trying to reach that by building
a unified music metadata database. New tools have appeared in the
last years to resolve content regardless across music repositories,
streaming services and geographic territories
(http://www.tomahawk-player.org/).
● Playlist generation (Music Listening experience): it was agreed that,
being music basically emotion, new music experience tools must
focus on emotional coherent experiences.
● User experience: “why music services still look like music
spreadsheets?” More research is required in tangible and visual
interfaces... Songs are no longer 3 minute long mp3 files but can be
hours long and divided into tracks available through the artist mobile
app.
● Unified Music Database: having a Unified universal metadata
database for musical assets is a key factor for building the music
rights tracking systems of the future.
Further details https://vimeo.com/44923943
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3.8 MIReS Panel ‘The Future of Music Information Research’ in the frame of CMMR 2012
EVENT INFORMATION
Event title The Future of Music Information ReSearch, a panel discussion within
the scopes of CMMR 2012 conference.
Partner organising Centre for Digital Music, QMUL
Co-organisers CMMR 2012
Dates June 21st, 2012
Location London, UK
Tags music and emotions, emotion and mood recognition, historical and
computational musicology, MIR social and cultural impact
Proceedings URL http://cmmr2012.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/sites/cmmr2012.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/
files/pdf/CMMR2012ProcceedingsFinal.pdf
MIReS EVENT / Activity
Event title The Future of Music Information ReSearch
Topics
addressed On-going debate on musical emotion:
1. music-induced mood and emotion - are they the same or different?
2. are musical emotions “real”?
3. perceived and felt emotion - are they the same or different?
4. are musical emotions similar to other emotions?
5. what are the best models of musical emotion?
6. musical emotion = aesthetic experience?
7. role of expertise, gender, culture and social context?
8. most studies relaying on self-reports of emotions - are they trustful?
MIR tools/systems for historical musicology which extends its exploration
focus from score analysis to performance analysis
● current industry oriented applications not suitable for the musicologist
● mainly text/label based information retrieval from available commercial
databases
● music as a dynamic process needs sufficient tools to track its key temporal
changes within the whole structure
Provocations about CMMR research and musical value
● music is important for us, we are emotional about music
● are we confusing between the two: being emotional about music and
recognising emotions in music?
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● if we care about music so much, why do we not treat is as if with cotton
gloves, like a precious item?
● it is not true that we do not have an effect on music that we research by
doing our research, if we think that music cannot be spoiled we are wrong
● nowadays music experience has become an individual experience
associated with travel thanks to MP3 compression algorithms
● What is CMMR research doing to musical culture, what are the
consequences?
Expanding the musical object (from the score centralised to the sound file
centralised)
the performance in context (in social sciences of music place, time ,
participants, social function, psychological state of participant(s)
● liveness
● unfolding in present time
● others listening with you
● spatial arrangement
● behavioural cues from performers
● behavioural cues from audience members
Addressing human benefit
social benefit
limited resources
responsibility not to waste them
prioritise work that contributes to wellbeing, social welfare,
social justice
false logic
music is of social benefit
my research is on music
therefore my research has social benefit
Nature A panel discussion within the scopes of CMMR 2012 conference.
Invited
speakers Prof. Geraint A. Wiggins (C4DM, Queen Mary University of London)
Prof. Joydeep Bhattacharya (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Prof. Tim Crawford (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Dr. Alan Marsden (LICA, Lancaster University)
Prof. John Sloboda (Royal Holloway University, Guildhall School of Music &
Drama)
Nr. of
attendees around 50
Relevant
contributions Addressing MIReS challenges:
1. What is CMMR research doing to musical culture, what are the
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consequences?
Two suggestions for research projects which treat music as if with cotton
gloves:
● a search engine for pleasant surprises (f.e. a competition to generate
playlists for an internet radio station accessible during an ISMIR
conference; the winner would be the one who had attracted most
listeners)
● a sound-file player which respects the structure of music and goes back
to the beginning of the phrase when resuming after a pause
2. Expanding the musical object to the sound file centralised object including
the performance context and liveness.
● Can context and liveness be retrieved by MIR?
● Is MIR "finding the music you want"?
● If so, can MIR extend its remit from past recorded performances to
future live ones?
3. Addressing human benefit
● How does a researcher decide what research to do?
● How does a research community decide what research to
support/promote?
● Policies and procedures for CMMR?
● Are there models to draw on?
● A proposal:
X% of papers at next CMMR will have scored highly on social benefit
assessment sub-committee to discuss, consult on, and agree criteria
this would have benefit outside your discipline as well
Extended summary of main contributions to be included in roadmap
Further
details The panel video recording is available on MIReS YouTube Channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM9MHh4DAAM&feature=plcp
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3.9 Second CompMusic Workshop
EVENT INFORMATION
Event title Second CompMusic Workshop: Computational Models for Music
Information Research
Partner organising Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Co-organisers -
Dates July 12th-13th 2012
Location Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi, Istanbul, Turkey
Tags Multiculturalism
Proceedings URL http://mtg.upf.edu/node/2639
Other remarks Complete program available here http://compmusic.upf.edu/node/130
MIReS EVENT / Activity
Event title (for
satellite events)
-
Topics addressed Opportunities for a Cultural Specific Approach in the Computational
Description of Music
Culture Specific Music Information Processing: A Perspective from
Hindustani Music
Carnatic Music: Svara, Gamaka, Motif and Raga Identity
A Semiotic Approach to the Analysis of Makam Melodies: The Beginning
Sections of Melodies as "Makam Indexes"
A Musically Aware System for Browsing and Interacting with Audio Music
Collections
MakamCycle: An Interactive Tool for Browsing Makam Music
The Concept of çeşni in Turkish Music and the Analysis of Performance-
Theory Differences
An Integrated Framework for Transcription, Modal and Modal and Motivic
Analysis of Makam Improvisation
A Unified System for Analysis and Representation of Indian Classical
Music using Humdrum Syntax
Incorporating Features of Distribution and Progression for Automatic
Makam Classification
Analysis of the Freesound Folksonomy
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Extracting Semantic Information from on-line Art Music Discussion
Forums
Features for Analysis of Makam Music
Applause Identification and its Relevance in the Archival of Carnatic Music
Audio Recordings
Auditory Scene Analysis and the Performance and Perception of Tabla
Rhythms in Hindustani Music
A Beat Tracking Approach to Complete Description of Rhythm in Indian
Classical Music
Metrical Strength and Contradiction in Turkish Makam Music
Sculpting the Sound. Timbre-Shapers in Classical Hindustani
Chordophones
Signal Analysis of Ney Performances
An Approach for Linking Score and Audio Recordings in Makam Music in
Turkey
Generating Computer Music from Skeletal Notation for Carnatic Music
Compositions
A Knowledge Based Signal Processing Approach to Tonic Identification in
Indian Classical Music
Tonic Identification System for Hindustani and Carnatic Music
Computational Analysis of Intonation in Indian Art Music
Melodic Phrase Segmentation from Audio in Hindustani Classical Music
Detecting Indian Classical Vocal Styles from Melodic Contours
A Two-Component Representation for Modeling Gamakas of Carnatic
Music
Motivic Analysis and its Relevance to rAga Identification in Carnatic Music
Nature (workshop,
round table, etc.)
Workshop
Invited speakers T. M. Krishna
Suvarnalata Rao
Okan Murat Ozturk
Nr. of attendees 40
Relevant
contributions
attached document
Further details http://compmusic.upf.edu/node/130
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3.10 Music Tech Fest: Music Tech Talks (Cultural Olympiad)
EVENT INFORMATION
Event title Music Tech Fest: Cultural Olympiad - Music Tech Talks
Partner
organising
STRO
Dates 26 July 2012
Location Ravensbourne, London
Tags music, information, creative, sound, colour, artists, designers, animators,
film makers, music makers, music industry
Proceedings URL http://www.musictechfest.org
http://www.youtube.com/musictechfest/
Other remarks Music Tech Fest TED-style channel on YouTube :
An important platform has been gained with the Music Tech Fest channel
on YouTube, which contains professionally filmed and edited videos of
each Music Tech Talk, and which is serving as a repository of documented
events and public information, as well as attracting proposals for further
contributions.
Stromatolite plans to continue to incentivise the Music Tech community
thus created throughout the duration of the MIReS project, and encourage
continued use of this framework beyond the duration of the project.
The Music Tech Fest YouTube film release programme has enabled the
brand to continue to build a global following and to reach new territories,
like Brazil, that had not originally tuned in to the live broadcast during the
festival.
MIReS EVENT / Activity
Event title (for
satellite events)
Music Tech Talks
Topics addressed Music information and creativity
Nature
(workshop, round
table, etc.)
Series of talks & presentations delivered by invited speakers
Invited speakers Matthew Hawn, Head of Product, Last.fm
Andrew Shoben, Founder, Greyworld
Tim Exile
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Nr. of attendees 100
Relevant
contributions
Andrew Shoben, founder of Greyworld discussed the potential of small
sonic interventions embedded into the urban fabric of a public space, to
allow some form of self-expression in areas of the city that people see
everyday but normally exclude and ignore. He presented a series of
examples of work, both physical and aural, that attempt to establish
special intimate zones, to ‘short circuit’ both the environmental and social
expectations supplied by the surrounding urban realm.
Matthew Hawn of Last.fm delivered a talk about the new applications that
Last.fm are building at to enhance the music playlist user experience, and
about the collaborations with students and academic researchers in
Aarhus, Denmark, to create novel forms of physical interaction using the
Last.fm API.
Awards to the Hackers who contributed to the Music Tech Fest were
announced by special guest Tim Exile.
Further details The event was professionally filmed and edited versions of the talks will be
uploaded on the new Music Tech Fest / Music Tech Talks channel on
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/musictechfest/
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3.11 ISMIR 2012 – special session "MIRrors: Looking back to the past of ISMIR to face the future of MIR"
EVENT INFORMATION
Event title ISMIR
Partner organising INESC
Co-organisers MTG-UPF
Dates 9-12/10/2012
Location Porto, Portugal
Tags ISMIR
Proceedings URL http://ismir2012.ismir.net/event/978-972-752-144-9.pdf
MIReS EVENT / Activity
Event title (for satellite
events)
MIRrors: looking back to the past of ISMIR to face the future of
MIR
Topics addressed User modelling, music cognition, music transcription, re-
usability of code and tools
Nature (workshop,
round table, etc.)
Special session
Invited speakers Emmanouil Benetos (Queen Mary University of London)
Markus Schedl (Johannes Kepler University, Austrian Research
Institute for Artificial Intelligence)
Jin Ha Lee (Information School, University of Washington)
Jean-Julien Aucouturier and Emmanuel Bigandv (LEAD Lab,
University of Burgundy, Dijon)
Eric J. Humphrey, Juan P. Bello, Yann LeCun (NYU)
Kevin Page (University of Oxford)
Nr. of attendees 80 approx.
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Relevant contributions Reviews on the shortcomings of the existing approaches to
music transcription, MIR generic systems and user modelling,
hints on ways to overcome them. Capita misunderstandings
between researchers of potentially synergistic disciplines (music
cognition). Lack of infrastructures to reuse, recycle and take
advantage of the existing MIR knowledge that persists under
the shape of computer code. See D5.3 for more details.
Further details http://ismir2012.ismir.net/event/programme/#mirrors
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3.12 ISMIR 2012 – Panel Session on Evaluation Initiatives in MIR
EVENT INFORMATION
Event title Panel Session on Evaluation Initiatives in MIR
Partner
organising
IRCAM, Paris, France
Co-organisers INESC PORTO, Portugal
Dates October 12th, 2012
Location Porto, Portugal
Tags M.I.R., evaluation, bench-marking, MIREX, MillionSongContest, MusiClef,
Media-Eval
Proceedings URL http://ismir2012.ismir.net/event/satellite-events#eval
MIReS EVENT / Activity
Event title (for
satellite events)
Panel Session on Evaluation Initiatives in MIR
Topics addressed The goal of this panel was to discuss on current evaluation practices within
the M.I.R. field. For this panel, the panel was composed of representative
of main M.I.R. evaluation initiatives (MIREX? Million Song Contest,
MusiClef) and a representative of I.R. evaluation: Gareth Jones, one of the
founders of Media-Eval.
Among the potential topics to be discussed are:
1) Definition of the tasks to be evaluated
● What methodology should be used to define the task (bottom‐up
vs. top‐down)? For which purpose should a task be evaluated:
low‐level tasks (functionality‐oriented such as beat, chords) vs.
full‐system tasks (use‐case‐oriented such as music
recommendation systems). Specific tasks that are part of
large‐scale international evaluations define de facto the specific
topics that new contributors to the MIR field will work on. The methodology followed to define tasks is therefore of utmost
importance.
2) Evaluation
● How should a specific task be evaluated? Which data, which
measures, what is the reliability of the results obtained?
3) Data
● How to get more data? How to deal with data availability (not only
music collections, but also raw system outputs, judgments, annotations)? Should we go to low‐cost evaluation methodology
(see TREC Million Query Track 2007, 2008 and 2009)? Currently
most MIR systems are concerned with audio‐only or symbolic‐only
scenario. Multi‐modal systems (such as aggregating information
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from the audio‐content, from lyrics content or web mining) should
allow deciding also on the impact on final user application of each technology.
4) Methodology
● What is the best methodology to drive improvements? What kind
of evaluation framework (open VS close evaluation)? What could
be improved in previous evaluation initiatives? How can we make results reproducible? How can we make MIR evaluation
sustainable along time?
Nature
(workshop, round
table, etc.)
The panel session was organized as a generic introduction (Geoffroy
Peeters), a keynote on "Searching for a Music REtrieval Conference
(MREC)" bu Gareth Jones, short presentation of MIREX, Million Song
Contest and MusiClef (Stephen Downie, Brian McFee and Nicola Orio) and
a round-table (including Julian Urbano). The questions were asked by
Geoffroy Peeters and from the audience.
Invited speakers Gareth Jones (Dublin City University), Brian McFee (University of California
at San Diego), Nicola Orio (University of Padova), Julian Urbano (University
Carlos III of Madrid), J. Stephen Downie (University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign).
Nr. of attendees 100
Relevant
contributions
Among the most important point discussed during the panel are:
- close model used by MIREX (no data publication) forced by the copyright
nature of the audio tracks. How to solve this issue
- centralized organization of MIREX. Media-Eval propose a completely de-
localized organisation with different leaders for the various tasks
- choice of the task to be evaluated: bottom-up (algorithm oriented)
versus top-down (use-case oriented).
Further details http://ismir2012.ismir.net/event/satellite-events#eval
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3.13 ISMIR 2012 – Demos and Late-breaking: Music Information Research Challenges
EVENT INFORMATION
Event title Gran Challenges of MIR research session at ISMIR 2012
Partner
organising
MTG-UPF and STRO
Dates October 12th, 2012
Location Porto, Portugal
Tags Roadmap challenges, feedback
Proceedings URL http://ismir2012.wikispaces.com/Program+suggestions
MIReS EVENT / Activity
Event title (for
satellite events)
Gran Challenges of MIR research session
Topics addressed The presentation of the session was:
By expanding its context and addressing challenges such as multimodal
information, multiculturalism and multidisciplinarity, MIR has the potential
for a major impact on the future economy, the arts and education, not merely through applications of technical components, but also by evolving
to address questions of fundamental human understanding, and build upon ideas of personalisation, interpretation, embodiment, findability and
community.
What are the most important challenges facing the MIR community in the
coming years?
In the MIReS project we have begun to identify several areas for future
investigation by considering technical, as well as social and exploitation aspects of MIR research. Amongst the many topics are musically-relevant
data, knowledge-driven methodologies, interface and interaction aspects,
evaluation of research results, social aspects, culture specificity, industrial, artistic, and educational applications.
The current list of challenges is a work in progress and can be found on the MIReS wiki.
We warmly welcome suggestions and additions to this list by the MIR community, and are very interested to hear particularly from researchers
who may have already begun to address some of these new challenges. Feel free to add comments or additional challenges to our wiki and
highlight the challenge you think deserves a longer discussion. An ISMIR
session would enable the community to participate in a lively discussion over the future of the field.
Nature
(workshop, round
table, etc.)
Open discussion
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Invited speakers -
Nr. of attendees 30
Relevant
contributions
A questionnaire was created: http://tiny.cc/wr0jlw from the challenges
wiki http://mires.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
The responses have been collected into D5.3, and an article has been
written with the first draft of the gran challenged (also available in D5.3).
Further details http://ismir2012.wikispaces.com/Program+suggestions
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3.14 Music Tech Talks (II)
EVENT INFORMATION
Event title Music Tech Fest: QMUL- Music Tech Talks
Partner organising STRO
Partners attending QMUL
Dates 15 Nov 2012
Location Queen Mary University London - School of Law
Tags music, information, creative, sound, colour, artists, designers,
animators, film makers, music makers, music industry, higher education
Proceedings URL http://www.musictechfest.org
Other remarks Music Tech Fest TED-style channel on YouTube:
With Music Tech Talk 2, Sromatolite continues to incentivise the Music
Tech community created throughout the duration of the MIReS project, and encourage continued use of this framework beyond the duration of
the project. The Music Tech Talks series along with our dedicated Music Tech Fest
YouTube film release programme continues to enable the Brand to
build a Global following and to reach new communities and territories.
MIReS EVENT / Activity
Event title (for
satellite events)
Music Tech Talks 2
Topics addressed Music information and creativity, Open Source, Metadata, music information retrieval, music scene analysis, semantic audio processing,
object-based audio coding, human machine interaction and digital
performance
Nature
(workshop, round
table, etc.)
Series of talks & presentations delivered by invited speakers.
Invited speakers Robert Kaye - founder and lead developer of MusicBrainz, and President
and Executive Director of the MetaBrainz Foundation.
Professor Mark Plumbley - QMUL Dr George Fazekas - QMUL
Nr. of attendees 70
Relevant
contributions
Robert Kaye presented his work on MusicBrainz. Robert is founder and
lead developer of MusicBrainz, and President and Executive Director of
the MetaBrainz Foundation. MusicBrainz is the leading open source project for music metadata on the internet. It utilizes an approach similar
to Wikipedia to curate high quality metadata and to assign unique identifiers for metadata entities. These identifiers allow for unambiguous
communication about music through its global metadata delivery network
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that includes customers like Google, BBC, Last.fm, Grooveshark, Amazon and AOL.
Professor Mark Plumbley introduced the work of the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM), Queen Mary, University of London. The Centre is a world-
leading multidisciplinary research group in the field of Music & Audio
Technology, investigating topics such as music information retrieval, music scene analysis, semantic audio processing, object-based audio coding,
human machine interaction and digital performance. With its broad range of skills and a strong focus on making innovation usable, the Centre for
Digital Music is ideally placed to work with industry leaders in forging new business models for the music industry.
Dr George Fazekas delivered a talk about technologies developed at the
Centre for Digital Music, including knowledge transfer initiatives, such as their content-based recommendation technology currently trialled by
the BBC and iLikeMusic, the BBC Desktop Jukebox and research tools such as the Sonic Visualiser, which is widely used within the music
information retrieval community
Further details The event was professionally filmed and edited versions of the talks will be
uploaded on the new Music Tech Fest / Music Tech Talks channel on
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/MusicTechFest
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4 CONCLUSION
During these first fifteen months of the MIRES project it was fundamental to interact with as many research communities as possible and with people from diverse communities that could give some input of relevance to the MIRES Roadmap. The activities reported in this deliverable have been instrumental in accomplishing that. We have basically organized 14 events in very diverse contexts from which we have been able to gather inputs from the three major communities of interest: research, industry, artistic. The information gathered in these events has shaped the current draft version of the MIRES Roadmap, both in terms of its organization and of its specific content. Further details about the feedback and inputs collected are available in D5.3 Summary of contributions.